Enable Assets search only for enabled libraries

Related to this, if multiple libraries are attached to a file, the asset search should indicate which library a component lives in. In the attached image I’ve enabled two libraries for this file, and I’m searching for a Button component. But each library has a Button, so how do I know which one belongs to which library? The only way to find out is to drag them into the file and see which system they’re in under Swap Instance.

Possible fixes: separate search results by library, show library on hover.

I moved some messages and closed the related topics so the discussion is focused in this one.

Please tell your devs that this is the desired behavior:

The search in the assets-panel should only find published components for libraries that are enabled in the file that is currently worked in.

Anything else doesn’t make any sense at all. I am working with Figma since the very beginning like 6 hours a day and know every tiny workaround, but there really is NONE for this and it is frustrating because it is probably super easy to fix and yet SO annoying.

PLEASE make sure your devs tackle this asap. This has been a problem for so long now 😦

This is a major annoyance for my organization. Designers often find things via the asset search function, but without the ability to filter things that are unpublished, they often grab outdated / old components that are no longer recommended for use.

You can now search only within a specific library using the Insert Component menu (Shift + I).

But that still doesn’t solve the main issue 😉

I understand.

This is badly needed!

Re-hydrating this discussion and feature request. We’re part of a huge organization with an extremely large number of teams (each with multiple library files) and we desperately need the option to turn off the “Showing results from all libraries” feature. The whole point of having toggles for libraries is to make sure outside library assets don’t accidentally end up in our files and this “all libraries feature” completely kills the point.

I’m managing multiple design libraries as we move through new app versions, so I can iterate through each update but still keep old components linked to old design libraries. However, asset search which is the primary method we use to quickly grab the components we need is becoming pretty much useless because it’s showing results from libraries that are toggled off or “archived” internally.

It would be amazing if Figma could provide us options to search only libraries we have enabled, and show us which library our components search results belong to.